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PAR AG HAMS. —Yesterday, in New York, Gold was quoted at 1.40|. Cotton, SI. —The opinion prevails in Paris that war will break out in Europe just before the close of the approaching autumn. . —-It is estimated that the railroads of the United States hare cost one thousand six hundred millions of dollars, or about two thirds of the amount of our national debt. —The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed a law fnrbiddior the limiting of pas senger cars by illuminating fluids that will explode. —Brighsm Young promises to put five hundred men at work on the Pacific railroad as soon as the exact route shall be desig nated. —The steamboat Daniel Drew the other day ran fourteen and a half miles in thirty four minutes, with n pressure of only thirty five pounds of steam. This is said to be the best steamboat time on record. American belles at Paris have so dis tinguished themselves in the way of flirting and dressing that they have jjot into the illustrated papers. The Paristennes are consequently jealous. —Over crowded omnibuses are not toler ated in France. As soon as the seats are all accupied the conductor hangs out a little flag, and as long as this remains in sight no one is permitted to get in. Ladies with poodles should bear in mind the fact that fashion has declared that this Summer the ribbon attached to the collar of the dog and held in the hand of the owner shall he pink. —Nowadays black is so much worn that it is not considered out of place at any time; with a pretty bonnet and shawl or mantle, it is full dress enough lor any occasion, and in black a lady can not be over dressed. From “the sublime to the ridiculous" is well illustrated by tlie latest New York fashion —the performance upon the organ of comic pieces from “La Hello Helene" at the dose of wedding ceremonies at aristocratic churches. —By slow degrees all the nations of the world are tending toward uniformity in coinage, weights and measures. The North German Confederation is now taking steps with a view to arrange a uniform system of ship measurement. —lt is related for a fact that a wedded couple reside in New Britain, Ct., who, during forty two years, have never expe rienced twenty four hours’ separation until last week, when one of them was away from home four or five consecutive days. —lt is now becoming general in the Epis copal chuichcs of Philadelphia to hold what is called the children's church, on the after i Oju of the first Sunday in each mouth, and great interest is felt by the young people in the parishes where the usage prevails. —The greenback circulation is about three hundred and fifty seven millions, but sixty millions are kept on deposit as a redemption fund for the National Bank currency, and much is kept on deposit purpose; probably not over two hundred and fifty millions are in circulation. —The Canadian Government has refused to forward destitute German emigrants arriving at Quebec, on the grouud that they are meiely passing through Canada to the Western States, not intending to locate in Canada, and consequently not entitled to Government aid. —Land Office reports show that 4,410 acres of public land were disposed of during May, at the lucal offices at Humboldt and Topeka, in the State of Kansas. The greater part of the lands were taken for actual settlement and cultivation, under the Homestead Act. —The Sanitary Inspectors of the Board of Health of Chicago have nearly completed the census of that city, and the total number of inhabitants will reach 240,000, which is an increase of 40,000 since October, 1800. The greatest increase is in the South divi sion, and particularly in the Fourth Ward. —The competition between the different lines of Sound steamers has reduced the fare to $2. The Bostonians are consequently crowding into New York. The four boats bringing an average of 0,000 people daily. State rooms have to be engaged a week in advance, the rush is so great. —Oswego, New York, must be a pretty busy place- Its commercial business during May was 0,320 barrels flour, 570,013 bushels wheat, 550,581 bushels corn, 03,035 of oats, 40,054 of rye, 00,007 of peas, and 57,077,271 feet of lumber. The amount of tolls received by the collector of the canal was $87,060.33. —The desertions from the Papal army have become so serious that the authorities And great difficulty to supply vacancies caused by this epidemic. As the new mili tary law of France will interfere very much with foreign enlistments, the Pope is look ing toward North and South America for recruits. —ln Maine men reach their greatest height at 27 ; in Now Hampshire, at 35 ; in Massachusetts, at 31. The tallest men, averaging GO inches in height, come front lowa, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Min ncsola, and Missouri give us men of a little over 08 inches ; and the average of all shows the Americans to be a very tall people. —A New York broker has in his posses sion a number of silver coins which were recently plowed up in a farm near Sheep’s Head Bay. The coins are supposed to be a portion of the treasure scattered along the shore by the pirate Gibbs, who landed at .Sheep's Head Bay about forty years ago, alter having robbed a vessel ol her cargo, consisting of $35,000 in Mexican coin. —Epsom unit* (sulphate o( magnesia) dis solved in beer, together with a small quantity of dextrine (artificial gum), and in this state applied to a pane ol glass with a sponge or brush, will, on crystalizing, pro duce identical designs to those produced by frost, and a fumous German chemist has discovered a means to transfer these fairy like creations to stuffs and paper. —There are about 00,000 Chinamen on the Pacific coast, scattered along the Golden Gate to Salt Lake, everywhere, frugal, tern perate, and industrious, but everywhere adhering to their oriental peculiarities. They secure employment in families, and in every branch of manufacturing. The more inde pendent engage in trade and mining, in the mining regions they number 20,000. —The postage on paid letters to and from Canada was reduced, on the Ist of April last, from ten to six cents for each half ounce letter. Notwithstanding this reduc tion, it is said that a large number of letters are still prepaid with ten cent stamps. Un paid letters only are charged ten cents. Canada postage includes Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but not Newfoundland and Prince Edward’s Island. To the latter the charge remains at ten cents. A Trenton paper, representing the follow ing conversation on the street, gives in a nutshell the animus of the opposition to General Grunt: Republican —Do you think many Democrats will vote for General Grant? Democrat —No. Republican - Why? Democrat —Because ho hurt himself when he captured Gee. Republican Oh ! nit I I see. NntionalHcfmblican r ,U/aiMTA. SATURDAY MORNING Ju"« *«.!**• For PHEPIDENT Os tue United States: ULYSSES S. MUM. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Scurvied Colfax, OF rXDIASA? HKI‘I lll.ir.l* PI.ATFORIH. The National Republican party of the United States, assembled In National Convention, in the city of Chi cago, on the IDUi day of May, 1868, make the following Declaration of Principles : lit. We congratulate the country on the assured suc cess of* the reconstruction policy of Congress, ai evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States lately in rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal civil and political rights to all, and regard it as the duty or the Government to sustain those institutions, and to prevent the people of such States from being remitted to a state of anarchy. 2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to all loyal men in the South was demanded by every' con sideration of public safety, of gratitude and of justice, and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. 3*l. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a na tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws under which it wus contracted. 4th- It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the na tional faith will permit. sth. The national debt, contracted, ns it has been, for the preservation of the Union for all time to come, should be extended over a fair period for redemption, and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in terest thereon, whenever it can houestly be done. Gth. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now pay, ami mnst continue to pay, so long as repudiation, partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus pected. 7th. The Government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy, and the cor ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ridteal re form. Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Uncoln, and regret the accession of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has aided treacherously to the people who elected him and the cause he was pledged to support : has usurped high legislative and judicial functions ; has refused to exe cute the laws; lias used his high office to induce other officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed his executive powers to render insecure the property, peace, liberty and life of the citizen; has abused the pardoning power; has denounced the National Legisla ture as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper attempt at the reconstruction of the States lately in re bellion ; has perverted the public patronage into an engine of wholesale corruption; and has been justly impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty five Senators. 9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers, that because a man is once a subject, he is always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the United States, as a relic of the feudal time, not author ized by the law of nations, and at war with our national honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti tled to be protected in all their rights of citizenship ns though they were natural bom, and no citizen of the United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts done, or words spoken, in this country, and if so arrested and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to interfere in his behalf. 10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late war, there were none entitled to more especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled their lives In the service of the country. 'Hie bounties and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s protecting care. 11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour aged by a liberal and just policy. 12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with all the oppressed people which are struggling for their rights. TO OUR COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS. Wc are now sending out bills (which arc long past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please at once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. For the Campaign! TIIK CIIUAPRST iV4l>i:it I\ GEOKGI l ! The Presidential Campaign, for 1808, will be the most important that has ever claimed the attention of American citizens. Our Republican friends, who realize the advantages to be secured by the dissemi nation of political truths through the medium of a well conducted daily journal, should, at once, organize Clubs for tlie purpose of increasing the subscription list and efficiency of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN published every morning (Monday ex ceptcd) at Augusta. Ga.. tlie home of tlie Governor elect. Tiie Rei’ehlican modestly claims that it has done good service in the Union cause, and for the promotion of pure and undefiled Republicanism, since flic party bad an existence in Georgia. It will be guided, as it has been hitherto, by uncom promising loyalty to tlie Union, and will resist every attempt to weaken the bonds that unite the American people into one Nation. The Rki’i iieran will heartily support General Quant and Sciiuvi.kk Colfax for the responsible positions for which they have been nominated. It will advo cate retrenchment and economy in the public expenditures, and the reduction of onerous taxation, it will advocate the speedy restoration of the South, as needful to revive business and secure fair remune ration for labor. I iik Rkim iimcan will always have all the NEWS—domestic, foreign, political, social, literary, and commercial—its pro prietors using enterprise and money to make the BUST possible Newspaper, as well iis the (JHKAPKbT. Its conductors will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavor to present its readers, daily, with n summary of the world’s doings in the most luminous and attractive manner. And, in order to place The National Rei'i iii.k an within the reach of all who desire u t/mnl dully netetjtajier, wc present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN,’’ | Prom now till the Jbrtt of December. | One Copy $2 25 Five Copies 10 00 Tan " 18 (10 Twenty “ 35 (10 I A TRIl> TO TUE LOCKS. It afforded us much pleasure to accept an invitation from our City Council, to accompany that body on their annual visit of inspection, along the line of the Augusta Canal, on Thursday last. The Coupcii and a few invited guests, including Wm. E. .Tacksox and F. Cogin, Esqrs., the President and Superintendent of the Augusta Manufacturing Company, assembled nt the Basin, about eight o’clock on Thursday morning, and embarked on a barge neatly arranged for the occasion. Arriving at Red’s Creek Dam, the party went ashore to look at the recent improve ments in this locality, which reflect the highest eredit upon the contractor, Mr. E. D. Reese. The main work is 187 feet long, 15 feet high, 13 feet wide at the base, 7) ffiet at the top, and will apparently “last forever.’’ There arc, also, two wing dams ; one, 25 feet long, 2 feet deep, 3 feet wide —anil tlie other, 2!) feet long, and of the same depth and width as the first. The total number of cubic yards of rock wall in this splendid structure is 1,180). It re quired five months to construct it, and cost $8,855.00—a good investment as time will demonstrate. After spending some time at this point, the party resumed their places in tlie barge, and ere long reached the Locks, in good time to partake of tlie ample lunch which had been provided. We feel inadequate to the task, however, of rendering justice (on paper) to the appetizing dinner to which the company sat down at two o'clock, arising therefrom at four. Nor shall wc attempt a narration of the subsequent “feast of reason and flow of soul” and best Ileidsic, which called forth several elo quent speeches in response to compli mentary toasts and sentiments; and we shall, perforce, !»• equally reticent relative to the well-rendered songs of three or four artistic vocalists. In brief, the trip was a most delightful one, and naught occurred to mar the pleasure of an agreeable day at the head of our canal navigation. In the course of an interesting conversa tion with tlie worthy and efficient En gineer of the Water Works, Wm. Phillips, Esq., we gathered the following facts re specting the Augusta Canal, which will doubtless prove as interesting to many of our readers. The first instrumental examination of tln line of the Augusta Canal was ma le in September, 1844, at the request and ex pense of Hon. John P. King and Col. llexky H. CI'MMINU. A Board ot Commissioners was elected by the City Council on the 15th of March, 1815, and they organized ttu tlie lSth of the same month. The cost of the work was then estimated at one hundred and lour thousand dollars, of which one hundred thoustnl was to be raised by a special tax on real estate in tlie city, and lour thousand was subscribed by four of the hanks in lien of sai l lax. Tin work was commenced in May. 1815. On the 23d ol November, 1816, the first water was let in on the first level to the depth of three feet. In February, 1847, the Canal was opened for navigation. The Canal, as laid off by Mr. C. O. San • Foul), the Engineer, was twentv feet wide at the bottom, with side steps of two to one for the water way, which was five feet deep — thus making the surface width forty feet, ami the sectional area of water way one hundred and fifty square feel. Subsequently, under the direction of Mr. Phillips, the depth of water increased to s veil feel by raising and extending the dams in the river, and raising the Canal banks. The surface width was thus made forty eight f'cel, and the sectional area two hundred and thirty eight square feet. Tiie expense of repairs, includiug the wood work of some twenty bridges, the raising of tlie dam, banks, etc., lias ttver ogcd'nbout $12,000 pev year. Beside this, extraordinary expense was incurred from time to time in the repairs of breaches, culverts, aqueduc’s, etc. The income from water rents has been so small that it was considered nominal, and the whole work may be takcu as a contribution by the Council, with tiie sanction of the citizens of Augusta, for tlie purpose of aiding the development of manufacturing industry, and in that way promoting indirectly the interests of tho city. It is true that tho Council is thus placed in an equivocal position, and the question may well be put: How far is tho Council justified in taxing the citizens generally for tlie benefit of a few enterprising individ uals who may venture their capital in tho development of manufacturing industry ? Until lately this would he a pertinent question, hut now, since tho system of labor has entirely changed, and all must labor, it becomes one of tho utmost importance and the full development of tlie industrial resources of the city is unquestionably a matter of the greatest interest to our citizens, It is obvious to tho most casual observer that tlie former natural advantages of Augusta have, by enterprising competition, become almost neutralized by the con struction and oxtonsion of tlie artificial railroad developments of tlie present day, and that the peoplo of Augusta, instead of sitting down “wringing tlieir hands” and “weeping and wailing” their sad fate, should be “up and doing,” and, if neces sary, pledgo thoir last dollar to secure to their city its ancient prestigo and success. More anon. * The movement to make Chief Justice Chase tlie I) emocratic candidate for Presi dent has culminated. Tho journals of that party in New York have,, by a simultaneous demonstration, pronounced with more or less emphasis against him. The failure of tln> Chase movement comes at such a time that the driftwood cannot bo concentrated for Horatio Seymour as a compromise candidate. Pendleton holds the field against ail coiners. Hancock and McClellan cannot compete with him. Were the New York Convention to assemble to day, Mr. Pendleton would unquestionably dictate its action, and ho its candidate- Tho advocates of Mr. Chase have only demonstrated that he ought to bo President, and that they Cannot discover a candidate who can even promise the party a triumph at the polls. -LV ULTIMATUM. 1 he Petersburg Index, hybrid, announces what “will not satisfy” the hybrids in the Presidential election, and thus lays the lash upon the backs of its submissive Northern associates: It will not sutisfy Democracy to secure control of the Government merely to leni ently execute unconstitutional Radical mea sures. It will not satisfy Democracy to come into possession of and perpetuate a Union pinned together by Radical bayonets. It will not satisfy Democracy to adminis ter Radical theories, to put a now Sinhad on the Southern neck, and to win the privilege ot experiencing all the consequences of uncorrected Radical mistakes. It will not satisfy Democracy to inherit negro suffrage from the dead Radicals, and to control a black man’s vote in that hail in w hich Douglas declared that this was a white man’s government, formed by white men for white men and their children forever. It will not satisfy Democracy to hold the offices of the country, while tho South writhes under the heel ot it deposed tyrant, and is ruled by a radically enthroned negro oligarchy. Nol No! No! A thousand times No I 7V e will gain peace by reaction which shall remove the leprosy from the afflicted South. We must undo all that has been wrongly done. Wc must go back to the very day aud moment when the Constitution was disre garded, mid begin anew—to build upa Union of law, of love, ol peace, and of perma nence, with the great Charter for its corner stone. If such be not tlie purpose, avowed and resalute, with which Democracy shall enter fields, it ought to and will be beaten, and we shall have neither reaction nor peace. Or, in other words, reaction means the repeal of the laws which have given Re publican governments to the South, and the restoration of hybrid power in all the insurgent States. This, and nothing less, will be the end of a liybrid-Democratic triumph in November. (From cur Special Correspondent. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Collapse oj the Chase Movement—The Untcrrijicd Terrified—Hancock's Chances on the Wane 'ihe Omnibus ttill—Local Matters—Appoint mints to Wat Point. Washington, 1). C., June 17, 18G8. Tlie so-called Chase movement, though quite formidable at one time, and receiving support from the New York World , now languishes, and will doubtless be entirely* squelched before July. Tho Chief Justico lias played his cards very adroitly, having secured an organized body of Democratic and Conservative political wire-pullers, with ramifications extending throughout the whole Northern and Southern States, who went into the movement under the blind infatua tion that anew party could be made up out of the debris of the old pro-slavery Democ racy and renegade Republicans, upon a platform recognizing all that has been g lined through the agency of the Republican party as accomplished facts, forgetting as it would seem the attempt and miserable failure in similar directions made two years ago by Johnson, Weed, Raymond & Cos. The move ment was for a long time conducted in secret, and as from time to time facts leaked out, indicating tlie treachery of Chase to the Republican party. VThose not in the secret were not willing to believe, however, the flying rumors, and treated them as an attempt by the common enemy to injure the political prospects of a distinguished states man. A portion of the Democracy treating the matter as a good joke, rather encouraged tlic idea ot the Democratic Convention nom inating Chase, when of a sudden they found the Chase cu r rent had considerable volume, and was likely to make trouble. To day the unterrified are fairly aroused to the danger, and nine tenths of the Demo cratic newspapers are attempting to stamp out the fire they have helped to kindle. The upshot of the whole matter will bo that some extreme man, like Pendleton or Seymour, will secure the empty honor of a nomination in New York city on the -Ith ol July next. The Democratic yeomanry of the Northwest think they see treachery on the part of eastern Democratic lenders in tho Chase movement, an indication of a disposition to stultify the acts of the party during the last ten years—-a result which would hand t lie names of their honored leaders down to posterity, steeped in infamy. They do not propose to submit to this, and will bring such a pressure upon the Convention that the tact that the world moves will not even bn admitted. General Hancock’s chances are growing less every day. The President has used all of his influence, until recently, in this direc tion. But the opponents ol Hancock have created a counter movement in the Southern States, and A. J. begins to foci again ns though Ihe Convention could do no belter than nominate himself. Os course, to accept tho nomination would he a personal sacrifice, but tlieo, you know, you know, he wauls.to carry out “iny policy” and crush out the Radicals. That, ho thinks, would be triumph enough fur the Democracy, and give him the office for his trouble, you know. Republican!* uro very well contented with the present aspect ot affairs. The oppo nents of Grant and Colfax make but little headway in maligning them. The World sets up a fearful howl over the fact that Grant lost more men in most of the battles he fought tlmn the Rebels. The simple answer to all this is that the Rebels were generally protected by fortifications and breastworks while Grant was in nearly every instance the attacking party, The President has taken no action yet on the Omnibus bill providing for the admis sion of six of the Southern States, and it is quite uncertain whether lie will write a veto or let tlie Gill go by default. Virginia will next receive the attention of Congress. The Constitution in this State was adopted in Convention two months ago, but the people o( the State have not voted upon it yet, because the Commanding General has issued no call. The reason given for this is the want of money ; hut the real reason may bo looked for at the White House. Congress will undoubtedly toko up the case of Virginia at an early day and direct a veto to he taken. The Chinose Ambassadors were received in the Senate Chamber to-day, and created quite a sensation in that dignified body. Mr. Corcoran, the banker, has his house enlivened by the presence of two of Mrs. ('Justice's children. The father of these children was connected with the Confederate Embassy in Paris, and the mother, now deceased, was an only daughter of Mr. Corcoran, Professor Greene, of Connecticut, lias been in town for several weeks, collecting data at the State Department for the Ihird volume of ‘'The Life of Major-General Greene, of the Revolutionary Army.’' Sonor Romero, of Mexico, now of the Mexican Cabinet, but formerly resident Minister here, is on a temporary visit to the capital. He takes one of Philadelphia’s fair daughters Imck to Mexico with him as a bride. The Itev. Father Walters, of St. Patrick’s Church, who has been spending several I months in Europe to benefit bis health, is expected to return here to-morrow, when a grand reception awaits him at tho hands of lus congregation and personal friends, # WEST POINT. I lie President has made tho following appointments at largo of Cadets at West Point for 1869; A. B. Dyer, of D. C.; Stephen J. Mulhall, Jr., bugler of the 42d Infantry ; I- rancis A. of Tennessee; Min. G., Birney. of Pennsylvania ; Elijah F. I’ardy, of New York; Natbamcl D. 1 endlcton of West Virginia; Thomas N. Bariey, of Tennessee; John W. Martin, of New York ; Francis T. Mix, of 1). 0.; G. 1). Williams, of Kentucky. There is an exciting scramble for Ucverdy Johnson’s place in the Senate. Just now Governor Swann seems to bo out of the ring, and the most prominent men talked of are Montgomery Blair and Pinkney Whyle, a prominent Baltimore lawyer. Mr. Johnson will not leave on his English mission before the 20th of July, and does not propose to vacate his seat in the Senate until a few days before that time. Some of the “recusant” Senators have lately been terribly annoyed by letters from strangers asking for the loan of small sums ol money. The writers of these missives evidently think the recusants have a pile of ,non<> y- Capital. [Correspondence Philadelphia. Press. LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL .” Washington, June 15, 1808. Reconstruction is at last on the eve of consummation. Had Andrew Johnson been true to his own voluntary plan and pledge, it would have been begun three years ago, and finished before the close of the first session of the Fortieth Congress, with the consent of the conquered rebels and in spite of the opposition of the sym pathizing Democrats. All the sophistry he has intermediately used to cover his defections he scoffed at as absurd and even treasonable in 1804-’65. The plea of State rights, since so eagerly set up by this wretched apostate, like that of the inviola bility of the rebel governments, for the purpose at once of justifying and protecting the treason that had really suspended or destroyed them, he only alluded to them to trample under foot with ineffable scorn. After incredible torture to the whole nation, involving the loss of thousands of human lives by the rcSncouraged traitors, and the sacrifice of hundreds of millions of dollars, a Republican Congress has readmitted tho six States of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Louisiana, and Florida—Arkansas having been provided for in a separate bill, which has become a law without the signa ture of the President. That State has ratified the fourteenth article of the Constitution, and elected her Senators and Representa tives, and is fully restored, or will be, when these have subscribed the necessary oaths and taken their scats. The six others will follow in due course, unless, indeed, the threatened veto of the bill readmitting them is sustained in the two houses. My advices do not favor this apprehension. Tho fact that tho bill passed the Senate by a vote indicating a constitutional number of two thirds in its favor, and that in the House the proportion is more decided, is relied upon as a certain remedy tor any new Executive freak. The three States of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi have not perfected or ratified their Constitutions ; wlieu they do, tliev will also be restored. This completes the work of reconstruction according to the original programme of Andrew Johnson, accepted by Congress, though in a much more moderate form, and carried to success in the face of his infu riated ami persistent opposition. There is no way to obstruct this legisla tion by an appeal to the Supreme Court before the Presidential election ; and accord ingly there is a pretty general preparation on the part of the Democrats, if not to recognize the validity of reconstruction, at least to vote under it in the ten original seceding States. The New York World plainly advises that the negroes should be induced to vote for tho Democratic candidate for President by such a platform as will not be positively against impartial suffrage, and Gen. Beauregard is quoted as giving up the contest for Presidential electors in all the reconstructed States. The Republicans ought to carry every one of these States for Grant, now that they will come in possession of all the county and municipal offices, heretofore so fatally wielded against them by the rebels, under the old systems, just happily, and, let us pray, forever superseded. But the best way to save reconstruction is to give Grant a majority of the electoral votes of the adhering States. Before that decree you need fear no judicial interference. The new administration of tho General Government will be an argument to the Southern people almost as potent as the overthrow of the rebellion, and Grant as President will be left unmolested to finish the work begun by Grant as general. There is indeed another reason to antici pate the submission of the deluded people ot the South—that of tlie intrinsic humanitv and justice of tho acts of reconstruction. As they examine these acts they will see how much they have lost by refusing an earlier acquiescnce in their conditions, and how much more they must lose by trying to destroy them. They can not deny that three years ago, alter Mr. Lincoln’s assassination, •hey would have willingly closed the account by accepting much severer conditions; and they know that such would have been tlieir course if Andrew Johnson had insisted upon his own scheme, as laid down in his cele brated Nashville speech accepting tho Re publican nomination of Vice President, on the 7th of June, 1864. Unquestionably Congress will remove all disabilities by a two-thirds vote, according to the new or XlVth Article of the Consti tution, the moment those people show that they yield to reconstruction. lho situation is full of encouragement. The Republicans are completing recon struction according to their covenant, and unless some unforeseen usurpation is lurk ing in tho White House, to be developed flic moment the peoplo's representatives leave their seats, all will be peace. But the best way to prevent any such new treachery is for Congress to take a recess, and not to adjourn finally. Occasional. [From tho New York >Sun. THE SOUTH AND MILITARY DES POTISM. Our old friend of the Charleston Mercury docs not hesitate to declare his heliof that “it Gen. Grant is elected to the Presidency, free government is at an end in those United States. Tho military despotism now stretched over the South will bo extended over the North, and tho sword, with a large standing army, will he tho arbiter of our political destinies.’’ II tho utterance of sentiments like these were not calculated to produce evil conse quences at the South, they would provoke ridicule lit tho North. Not ten intelligent, candid men, dwelling abovo tho Potomac, boliovo that in the event of Grant's olection tree government will bo at an end in this country, or that military despotism will pre vail in any part of tho Union ; and wo would fain have hoped that such prophecies would gain no currency among well informed persons in any quarter. Wo do not stop to vindicate Grant from the charge that, under an administration conducted by him, the sword, with a large standing army, would be the arbiter of our destinies. Every act of his life rebuts such on assumption. The terms ho dictated on the surrender of the Confederate armies were of the most generous character; and though, since that event, under Acts of Congress, passed without bis procurement, he has been clothed with vast powers over the unrecon structed States, the public records furnish ample proof that ho has labored earnestly for tho earliest possible completion of the work of restoration, so that be might he relieved from disagreeable duties, and those States resume the exclusive control of their civil affairs, without the presence of the sword. As to his desire for a large standing army, everybody knows that he has urged the reduction of the' array to the lowest practicable standard, and is about as likely to become a military despot in the Presi dential office as the Charleston Mercury will be to learn wisdom from the non-fulfilment of its gloomy prophecies. We notice these forebodings only to express our regret that such extravagant predictions can gain any hearers at the South. It was inflammatory teachings like these, continued through a long series of years, that prepared the Cotton States for secession, and finally plunged their people into tho chaos of civil war. For a third of a century the Mercury was the oracle of those architects of ruin, the disciples and apostles of John C. Calhoun. Their counsels were followed, and the result was that negro slavery, their darling institution, was drowned in the best blood of the South, while the wealthy were impoverished, the poor reduced to starvation, and tho mag nates of tlie land covered with humiliation and disgrace. What the Stales below the Potomac and the Ohio have cause to dread is not the election of Grant or any other Northern President, but such fulminatious as those of the Mercury and kindred journals and orators, which tend to embitter the preju dice.? and inflame the passions of tbeir people, and divert tlieir attention from their true interests. Let them eschew politics, ignore demagogues of all parties, devote their energies to cultivating tlieir lands, rebuilding their railroads, fostering trade and manufactures, establishing common schools, and developing .their - resources ; and then shall they become a prosperous, intelligent, and powerful section of the Republic. [h'rom tho Cincinnati Gazette. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. That the Democrats mean to try bard to elect the next President, is a matter of course, but that they regard the chances decidedly against them is "evident, from the fact that a large part of the most influential leaders seriously propose to take the candi date from the Republican party. When Democrats seriously propose to pass by their own leaders and seek an expediency candi date, no one need be told that they do not feel sure of being able to elect anybody. The proposition, therefore, to nominate Chief Justice Chase is an admission of weakness— an admission that they cannot elect a straight Democrat, and that if they would regain the power that was lost when the party went with the rebels, they must ride in on the hack of not merely a Republican, but an old Abolitionist, and on a platform favoring impartial suffrage, recognizing the national debt as payable in gold, and favoring an early return to specie payments. Thus the party, at the outset ot the Presidential cam paign would be compelled to purge them selves of all the leading principles which they have advocated since 1800, and to take all their principal planks from the Repub lican platform. Even if they should not nominate Chase, the Republicans will find tlie articles that are being written and published in the most influential Democratic papers in favor of distinctive Republican principles, valu able during the campaign- When the Democrats talk about paying the debt in greenbacks, and about a “white man's government,' we can refer them to their own declarations that they are willing to support Chase, ou liis own platform ; that they are ready to drop the “nigger" and take the negro ; that they arc willing to pay the bondholders in guld; that the National Banks, of which Chase is the father, are admirable institutions; and we have further, the virtual admission that Republican principles are good enough for Democrats, provided they will carry that party into power. This is the sum and substance of tiie Chase Democratic move ment, and it must prove sufficient to con vince the people that the Democratic party have no principles that they arc not willing to barter for office. But will Chase be nominated ? It is our opinion he will not; but his name will be used to defeat Pendleton; and it is our impression that this is all that the Chase wing of tlie Democratic party expect to accomplish by the movement. Mr. Pendleton will enter the Convention stronger than any other candidate; but not near so strong as his friends profess to believe. A great deal more is claimed for him in the West than can be depended upon. Indiana, for example, lias been reported for Pendleton, but Senator Hendricks is a candidate, and this fact makes Indiana more than uncertain. Even in the Ohio delegation men are to be found, even now, who are not certain whether it would be wise to nominate Pendleton. The same may be said of other Western States, and when we come to the Southern Stales, it will ho lotuul that these will yield to the magic influence of Belmont as soon as they reach New York. The Eastern delegation will be almost solid against Pen dleton. While, therefore, the hitter has more strength than any other candidate named, ho will not have a majority of the Convention to start with, and the two-third rule will he adopted, which will seal tho fate of Pendleton, as did that of Douglas. Thus the party of expediency will triumph, and Hancock, or some oue who has not been prominently named, will receive the nomi nation, to be beaten in November by Grant; as McClellan, who was also an expediency candidate, was beaten in ISO 4 by Lincoln. If the Democrats were sincere in the principles they have advocated heretofore, they could not now abandon them or nomi nate a candidate who does not represent them. They must either adhere to tlieir principles and their men, or abandon both. To change the one or abandon tlie other, in the lace of tlie enemy, will make more certain the deteat which, by a dodge, they hope to avoid. Nothing could have been more ridiculous than the nomination of Gen. McClellan in 1804, on a peace platform. The people saw through the performance, and promptly and overwhelmingly condemned it. So they will do, under like circumstances, in 1868; and, as already intimated, we believe llieso circumstances will occur. The disposition to mask tho party for the conflict of 1808 is too stroug to ho resisted successfully, and it the platform can not be advanced fully to the Republican stand point, anti-war leaders will certainly bo shown to back seats. lion. \V. If. Wadsworth, a prominent member of the third party in Kentucky, is among those who refuse to bo transferred to the Democracy, and has taken the stump for Grant and Col lux. The Alabama delegates to tho ttli of July Convention are instructed to fake no part in the selection of a Presidential candidate, but to leave the matter fully to the States that are fully in the Union according to Con gress. Vallandigham says that ho is not only not “sensitive” about his rocord during the war, but proud of it. Zjjgj“OONBIGNEES~PEr - OUHA RAILROAD, J unc CAL ery, Pollard Cox 4 Cos, P A 8,,. ’ Fannie MorrU, Mr. L Bredcojg J Hahn, W Brenner, Oil) „ “ E Hatton, D Bulling, WC J 0.!,,, * c , *’ M Wymen A May, Steven,on A a , ’ 1 1 l tery, Col D G Flagler, J M-’tin,Tjß Morgan, **, l BSr consignees RAILROAD, June I#, 18*8.-J 0 C A W A Cos, W 8 Itoyall, A.gLu F C DeCotte, P Fleming, W J i Bea.lA.l, JU Balil’A O’D it- M, Diana SnmcraU, Adam, A Bone. 4 S Ii t GRAIN AND The old cstibli.htd “Com Exchange Ba- Ie prepared to furnish GRAIN SACIfa desired me or quality, ®d‘« COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACl[e Neatly punted to order 4CKS *'*-** gsy nm, s,. 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